So, today is something like day 3 of my week off from work. I worked through the holidays and just needed a break: I wasn’t getting anything done anymore at night or even on the weekends, just from being tired and the like. Since I like to write, the fact that I was working 10 (usually 11) hours a day for four days was pretty rough: When I came home, I totally did not want to even think about looking at the PC for long, and on my weekend as well I just did not want to be in front of a monitor. Hopefully, now that I’m going back to a regular schedule, that will change a bit.
It’s the 4th, but I’m still working out some New Year’s Resolutions. More on that later.
Finally, today Orie and I woke up early and spent most of the afternoon at Furnitureland South, an enormous furniture store in High Point, NC. It’s huge. Indescribably huge. Well, let me give it a shot: It’s like two shopping malls, attached to each other, where in the shopping mall there is nothing but furniture. Something like over 1,000,000 square feet of floor space. That’s over 500 houses full.
Anyway, we were just looking for a new dining room table, and narrowed it down to about four candidates in two categories: The categories were Circular tables (that is, not oval/rectangular with round edges, but a complete circle that sits at least 6) and Square tables (that seat 8: 2 on each side of the square). Next, we’ll wait for my second hiring bonus, my tax return, and possibly my yearly work bonus, and score one. Cheap, too: Everything at Furnitureland South is tagged at the retail price, and right off they take off 40-50%. The insane stuff that we were looking at was totally sanely priced at that point.
I did see a $50,000 table set that I actually thought was pretty, though. But the $30,000 wooden clock was the highlight, I think.
Anwyay, in the New Year I hope to post more to this journal, about once every 1-2 weeks.